Explore 133 projects in the Open civic data category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Open civic data refers to publicly available data about governmental functions, civic issues, and public services that is openly licensed and freely accessible to citizens, developers, and organizations, promoting transparency, enabling public participation, and allowing the development of applications and services that can benefit the community.
ENHANCE Cities is a free interactive mapping tool from UCL's CASA that visualises urban-planning and sustainable-transport indicators, transport accessibility, travel sustainability, brownfield sites, 15-minute-city access, across England and Wales, from national to neighbourhood scale.
he Bay Dashboard is an independent, student-built civic dashboard that gathers scattered public planning records across all 101 Bay Area cities, what's being built near you, which board decides it, and when it meets, into one resident-facing tracker with plain-English meeting summaries.
House London is a monthly data sprint at Newspeak House.
An open, source-dated directory of official Canadian resources for researching a rental address before signing a lease.
Muyni is an independent, nationwide searchable archive of US local-government meeting records, agendas, minutes, and supporting documents, collected from cities' own official sources and covering 5,789 municipalities (2M+ meetings, ~90% of residents).
Public payroll records for every City job, turned into answers about pay, overtime, tenure, and whether a given title has kept up with New York prices and rent.
Databook is a curated, source-backed reference covering the world's countries, where every figure carries its source and publication year (traceable to authoritative publishers like the UN, World Bank, V-Dem, and IPU Parline) and, where authorities disagree, all values are shown side by side.
Baladi Map is a free, independent record of what Lebanon's municipalities are responsible for. And what they actually fix. Approved reports stay public with their photo, location and status. Every status change stays on the public record so anyone can see what was done.
الحق في الحصول على المعلومات - The right to access information - Le droit d'accès à l'information